I’m completely addicted to podcasts. Being able to board a packed subway and still get your daily fix of news or entertainment relief makes the 40-minute commute back and forth feel like a walk in the park. iPods and other MP3 players are so pervasive now, and most of us have no time to watch TV or listen to radio.

My podcast listening pattern mimics my old radio listening habits: I created a playlist with everything that’s recent and let it play continuously. This leads me to keep having senile moments when I can’t for the life of me remember what the source was for my references. I also wanted to tell Andy and the Michaels that I’m now subscribing to Dogear Nation, but my recollection of the shows is all mixed up with Buzz Out Loud and net@nite, so I’d better stay quiet 😛 .

An annoying side effect of having the so-called wisdom of crowds surfacing what’s worth talking about is that most of the tech podcasting tend to cover exactly the same things. They all seem to go to Digg, Reddit and Engadget as their main inspiration for news, so I’m getting increasingly more fond of listening to non-news radio shows from BBC, CBC and NPR. The TED Talks are also top in my list, but I can only consume videos when I manage to get a seat, so there’s a lot to catch up on the video podcast front. Yesterday I listened to Ken Robinson talking about education and creativity. Fantastic talk, if you ask me.

I keep changing my subscriptions, but this is my full current list. Looking at it now, it seems obvious that I need to shrink the techie talks and get more of other stuff urgently there.

Best Ads on TV

Best of Today

Best of YouTube (Ipod video)

Boing Boing TV

Book Review

BusinessWeek — Technology & You

Buzz Out Loud

CBC Radio: Ontario This Week

CBC Radio: C’est la vie: Word of the Week

CBC Radio: Dispatches

CBC Radio: Editor’s Choice

CBC Radio: Quirks & Quarks Complete Show

CBC Radio: Search Engine

CBC Radio: Spark

CBC Radio: The Best of As It Happens

CBC Radio: The Best of Ideas

CBC Radio: The Best of Sounds Like Canada

CBC Radio: The Best of The Current

CBC Radio: Toronto This Week

CBC Radio: Words at Large

CNET News Daily Podcast

CanadExport podcast

Cranky Geeks for the iPod Video

Digital Planet

Dilbert Animated Cartoons

Documentaries

Dogear Nation Podcast

Engadget

ExtremeTech.com

From Our Own Correspondent

Front Page

GeekBrief.TV | Video Podcast (iPod)

Global News

Harlequin Author Spotlight

Harvard Business IdeaCast

IBM – Powered by PodTech.net

IBM DEMOzone:en Accelerating Web 2.0 for Government

IBM Innovations Podcasts

IBM Institute for Business Value: Insights and Perspectives Podcast

IBM News Center – Audio Podcasts – United States

IBM Small Business Podcast

IBM WebSphere Technical Podcast series on SOA

IBM and the Future of. . .

IBM developerWorks – Powered by PodTech.net

IBM developerWorks podcasts

In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg

Inside Mac Radio

Java News Podcast

Learn French by Podcast

Learn Spanish with Coffee Break Spanish

Mac Tips Daily!

MacBreak (iPod video)

NPR: 7AM ET News Summary Podcast

NPR: 7PM ET News Summary Podcast

NPR: Books Podcast

NPR: Business Story of the Day Podcast

NPR: Environment Podcast

NPR: Foreign Dispatch Podcast

NPR: Fresh Air Podcast

NPR: Health & Science Podcast

NPR: It’s All Politics Podcast

NPR: Koppel on the News Podcast

NPR: Movies Podcast

NPR: Pop Culture Podcast

NPR: Shuffle Podcast

NPR: Story of the Day Podcast

NPR: Technology Podcast

NPR: Tell Me More Podcast

NPR: World Story of the Day Podcast

NYT Op-Ed Podcast

NYT Tech Talk

Nature Podcast

New Yorker: Fiction

New Yorker: Out Loud

NewsPod

Nickjr: Diego (VIDEO)

Odeo

Onion News Network (Video)

PCMag Radio

PRI’s The World: Technology Podcast from BBC/PRI/WGBH

Productivity @ IBM

Rough Guides iToors

Science Talk: The Podcast of Scientific American

Science Times

Sesame Street Podcast

Slashdot Review – SDR News

Spanish Podcasts for Beginners

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at D5 Conference

Storynory – Stories For Kids

Stuff You Should Know

TEDTalks (video)

The Economist

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos Video Podcast

The Java Posse

The Sarah Silverman Program (Video)

The Web 2.0 Show

The latest news from IBM in the US

TimesTalks

Tourcaster

Travel with Rick Steves

Wake Up To Money

Walks of a Lifetime

Weekend Business

Weekend Explorer

Wired Science Video Podcast

World View

net@night

this WEEK in TECH – AAC Edition

todmaffin.com

If you managed to get to this line of this long post, you may be wondering why the heck I carry Harlequin Author Spotlight, Diego and Sesame Street in my iPhone. I attended Jenny Bullough’s talk at the Canadian Institute Social Media event last week and was curious to see how them are using podcasts to drive revenues. As for Diego and SS, those are life savers when your 2-year old is having a tantrum in a crowded restaurant.

I would love to hear recommendations for good podcasts, as I keep tweaking this list, so please let me know what you’ve been listening lately.